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Arno Lippmann

Sentenced to death by hanging on 13 December 1945; executed on 29 May 1946. 1890–1946

Arno Lippmann served as SS-Obersturmführer and commandant of the Kaufering II and VII subcamps. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Kaufering through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.

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Confirmed findings

Arno Lippmann was born in Lippelsdorf on 25 July 1890 and was executed at Landsberg am Lech on 29 May 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
From August 1944 he commanded Kaufering II and from January 1945 Kaufering VII; he acknowledged that prisoners were underfed and underclothed. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Witnesses described how he beat unconscious a prisoner who tried to remain with his father during a selection and how, in April 1945, he fired into prisoners searching a refuse pit for food. The court found him guilty and sentenced him to death. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

Place in the chain of responsibility

Lippmann’s responsibility rests both on commanding subcamps under conditions he knowingly described and on two individualised acts of violence confirmed in the trial review. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

Key events and mechanisms

In August 1944 he assumed command of Kaufering II and in January 1945 of Kaufering VII. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
In April 1945, during the dissolution of Kaufering VII, he fired into a group of prisoners who were searching a refuse pit for food. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

No victim-count ranking

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Postwar accountability

The main Dachau trial found him guilty of both charges and sentenced him to death on 13 December 1945. The review recommendation found no basis for clemency; the sentence was carried out on 29 May 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

Limits of the evidence

The shots directed at the group of prisoners are documented, but the cited review does not establish whether anyone was hit; the profile does not add fatalities to that incident. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

Sources

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